Duckduckgo

DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the "filter bubble" of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. DuckDuckGo also emphasizes getting information from the best sources rather than the most sources, generating its search results from key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia and from partnerships with other search engines like Yandex, Yahoo!, Bing and WolframAlpha.The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States, in Greater Philadelphia, and has 20 employees.

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…, trending, and popular results before they hit the indexed web.” These streams are classified into structured topics which provides additional context and insight. Bonus: 11) DuckDuckGo Honourable mention to DuckDuckGo, the new kid on the block that doesn’t store your personal information, which has managed to accrue 13 million unique monthly visitors…

… is DuckDuckGo, a service that brags enhanced privacy and security. While they manage to pull in 100 million visits every month, it’s still not much compared to Google’s 100 billion. Meanwhile, social media is trafficking more content than ever, and other search services like Yelp and Flickr have cornered markets where Google lags behind…

… DuckDuckGo announced they have added two new features to their search engine. Searchers can now filter the search results by date and searchers will now also see sitelinks for some of the top search results. The date filters let you filter results from the last day, week and month, so that filters or limits the search results you see when…

… Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo shared news via a tweet yesterday that it is now displaying Major League Baseball scores and upcoming game schedules via instant answers with content pulled from the Bleacher Report. Sharing an image of a search for “Giants game,” the DuckDuckGo tweet announced, “It’s #OpeningDay for Major League Baseball…

… Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has launched a new Directions! feature that offers location results with the option to choose directions via Apple, Bing, Here, OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. According to the announcement, whatever map provider is selected during the first use will become the default for DuckDuckGo’s “Get Directions” button…

… I’ve heard about DuckDuckGo a few times over the years, mostly as a name uttered in hushed whispers behind closed doors – “You don’t have to use Google. There is another way.” As far as I knew, it was a small, scrappy start-up that had nevertheless managed to make its mark in the world of search, dominated as it is by the vast and all-knowing…

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… The Goliath in any industry will always have their version of David. Sometimes they may have more than one. Right now Google has their standard competitors and a recent upstart called DuckDuckGo. Just like Ello was to Facebook, DuckDuckGo will not retain or use consumer data. This has caused a lot of digital media outlets to cover…

… Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo reported strong growth in 2015, with search queries reaching a single-day high of 12 million on December 14. Generating more then 300 million searches during the last month of the year, the site saw its average daily search numbers climb from 7.7 million in January to 10.8 million in December. In 2015…

… Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo is making it easy to find the legal rights for international LGBT communities using data from Equaldex, a collaborative database of LGBT rights. Searching for “LGBT rights” or “gay rights” along with a country name will deliver an Equaldex tab at the top of the search engine’s results page, displaying the legal…

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… Today, privacy search engine DuckDuckGo announced it is the default search engine in Adblock Browser for iOS and Android devices. In addition to being the default for the Adblock Browser, DuckDuckGo says it is working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on a new “Do Not Track” standard, and also has agreed to sign the “Acceptable Ads…

… DuckDuckGo announced that they’ve expanded their search auto-suggestions, aka autocomplete, to 34 new international regions. Auto suggest helps searchers find the appropriate query as they type, by providing common search queries as they start typing. Since DuckDuckGo is all about privacy, they make it clear that auto suggest does not impact…